Warrior of My Own by Knightley Diana

Author:Knightley, Diana
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

We pulled up to another cottage and Magnus dismounted from the horse to inquire inside. We were advised to ride down a field to another house, because as Magnus put it, “The house was so full of bairn, I canna imagine they have a floorboard tae spare.”

The next house was much like the others — an older couple lived there, with more animals than it seemed wise to keep in a small space. It smelled horrific. They gave us a spot near the fire, but seemed irritated by our presence.

While Magnus went out to see to our horse, the woman of the house bustled around me, cranky and fitful. She hovered, working near the fire, where I was perched on a tiny stool. She didn’t want me there, but I didn’t want to give up my spot. I needed it, plus Magnus had arranged for me to sit here. I accidentally bumped her elbow which irritated her further.

She seemed to think I was a massive inconvenience. I felt it too but I couldn’t even imagine how to help. There was one pot and filth everywhere but I had no experience with cleaning pig sties in the eighteenth century.

Magnus returned. He and I sat on small stools without much to do but warm by the fire. Magnus held my hand. Then he leaned forward into my lap, wrapping around my arm. His forehead on my shoulder. I bowed my head so I could hear his words.

“Our lives, mo reul-iuil are full of too many apologies. I daena believe I would have left ye, I would have stopped myself, surely, but I have spent many a long hour in the past days thinking ye would be better without me.”

“You cannot think it without meaning something so awful I can’t even bear it Magnus. I am not better without you. Because we’re together now, entwined and entangled, like that tree today in the woods. There isn’t any going back.” The warmth of the fire popping and crackling in the fireplace spread only about five feet away but we were within the circumference of the heat. Almost comfortable for the first time all day. And the warmth was spreading into my body, coursing through my blood, warming my heart. The anger from earlier, at the predicament, at his reaction, at my past few days, began to dissipate.

Magnus was doing the best he could. This was all so complicated and he had done so much. He had to fight back from the battle and now he had to rationalize back into my arms.

He needed help.

I pressed my lips to his forehead. “Did you mean it when you said we were cursed?”

“Och, aye.”

“Did it ever occur to you that the path you are on, coming forward in time — to me, might be a part of God’s plan? Why do you think you’re going against him?”

His forehead grew heavier on my shoulder. “I daena ken.”

“Exactly.” I whispered into his ear. “You don’t know. God has never spoken to you outright.

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